About the Role
This role focuses on owning and executing the SEO strategy for the firm's website and all landing pages, aiming to build and defend rankings for high-intent local searches. It also involves managing Google Business Profiles, ensuring citation accuracy, overseeing technical SEO health, and improving visibility in AI-driven discovery channels. The position requires structuring content for retrieval by large language models and monitoring AI-generated answers.
Responsibilities
- Own SEO strategy and execution across the firm’s website and all city, county, and practice-area landing pages.
- Build and defend rankings for high-intent local searches.
- Manage and optimize Google Business Profiles across every firm location, including reviews, categories, service areas, photos, Q&A, and posting cadence.
- Maintain citation accuracy and profile quality across legal directories and review platforms.
- Oversee technical SEO health: site architecture, internal linking, page speed and Core Web Vitals, schema markup, crawlability, and indexation.
- Measure and improve the firm’s visibility inside AI-driven discovery channels.
- Structure content, entity data, and citations so the firm is retrievable and quotable by large language models.
- Monitor AI-generated answers and correct inaccurate or reputationally damaging representations at the source.
- Analyze social and community signals to feed AI answers and search results.
- Evaluate, implement, and administer AI tools that support content production, keyword research, competitive monitoring, and intake workflows.
- Oversee SEO measurement end to end: build, QA, and maintain dashboards connecting rankings, impressions, visibility, traffic, calls, and signed cases.
- Deliver a monthly performance report to firm leadership that translates data into plain-English recommendations and clear priorities.
- Identify performance shifts, diagnose root cause, and recommend action.
- Run competitive analysis against other Texas criminal defense firms.
- Design and measure experiments and scale what works.
- Maintain a prioritization framework that ties proposed SEO work to expected case value.
Requirements
- 4+ years in SEO, organic growth, or digital marketing analytics, with demonstrated ownership of a site’s organic performance.
- Knowledge of ranking signals, search algorithms, technical SEO, and local search.
- Hands-on experience with Google Search Console, Google Analytics (GA4), Google Business Profile, and at least one enterprise SEO platform.
- Practical experience applying AI tools to marketing work.
- Experience with CMS platforms and basic front-end concepts (HTML, structured data, page speed fundamentals).
- Self-starter mindset.
- Experience marketing for a lead-generation-driven professional service business.
- Familiarity with legal intake and CRM systems, call tracking platforms, and lead attribution.
- Multi-location or multi-market local SEO experience.
- Working knowledge of SQL, Python, Looker Studio, or Power BI for data extraction and reporting.
- Video and social content experience, particularly YouTube and short-form platforms.
Skills
- SEO strategy
- Google Business Profile optimization
- Technical SEO
- AI tools
- Content structuring
- Data analysis
- Reporting
- Competitive analysis
- Experiment design
- Google Search Console
- Google Analytics (GA4)
- Google Business Profile
- Enterprise SEO platforms (Ahrefs, Semrush, Moz, Screaming Frog)
- CMS platforms
- HTML
- Structured data
- Page speed fundamentals
- SQL
- Python
- Looker Studio
- Power BI
- Video content
- Social content
Experience Level
- 4+ years
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Paid vacation, holidays, and sick leave
- 401(k) with employer match
- Life insurance and disability coverage
- Continuing education and professional development support
About the Company
- Direct access to firm leadership and real ownership of a function that visibly moves the business.
